Connecticut driver took my dad's handicap space

I write to all the people who respect the disabled veterans, all the people who respect the disabled senior citizens, all the people who respect the handicapped who are trying to live a productive life.

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Posted Aug. 8, 2014 at 2:00 AM

Posted Aug. 8, 2014 at 2:00 AM

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Aug. 6 — To the Editor:

I write to all the people who respect the disabled veterans, all the people who respect the disabled senior citizens, all the people who respect the handicapped who are trying to live a productive life.

I would like to know what kind of person from Connecticut would scrounge through the side streets of Portsmouth to take a disabled 80-year-old veteran's parking space, the space the city of Portsmouth so kindly dedicated as handicap to help him reach his front door with groceries in hand. Why would the city in its wisdom commit a handicap parking space for a tourist on a side street with but five houses and a distance from downtown?

As his son, who takes him shopping, we had to stop the car in the middle of the street to unload his groceries and I had to assist him to the front door. What do I tell him? The car from Connecticut has a plaque on its visor and deserves to use an old man's parking spot just to walk three blocks to wine and dine and support our downtown merchants. Are we just here to serve who visit?